Sami Awad, on Auschwitz, fear, and the meaning of nonviolence

Sami Awad, Founder and Director of the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem, Palestine, speaks with the Compassionate Listening Project on Monday, May 31, 2010.
http://www.compassionatelistening.org
film by Leah Green, founder/director of Compassionate Listening Project. For more on our delegations, see Leah's blog, Compassion Junkie, at http://leahdgreen.blogspot.com/

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• nonviolence
• Israeli-Palestinian peace
• Palestinian nonviolence
• Sami Awad
• Holy Land Trust
• Palestine
• Auschwitz
• bearing witness in Auschwitz
• Compassionate Listening
• Leah Green
• hope
• peacemaking
• peacemakers
• Palestinian peacemaker
• Bethlehem

[Merakixo]

This man is a very good man. I learned of him in the book, Tea with Hezbollah and he gained a very sincere amount admiration from him.

I hope that his voice help the Palestinians rise up against false hope, like Hamas and so we can be happy and peaceful and live together as before the 1940's.

[ttom1006]

The US and Germany don't give money to Israel because they feel guilt. The Roma were exterminated, too, and today they eat dirt and are trampled on and nobody cares.

The US and Germany give money to Israel exactly in order to terrorise the Arabs who happen to live in the oil rich territories of the crossroads of three continents.

[bookofbokanon]

Well said.

However, many Israeli's have said this for years, and it isn’t too well received, even coming from ‘the inside’. Alternatively, if an Israeli was to preach the same message about Palestinian education, it would likely not be well received either; it would be interpreted as an accusation, and people would immediately set up their defenses by finding the other side’s fault. So how do you get this message to be HEARD, not by those who already agree but with those who don't?